Warmup - nice presentation

bahzob

I was asking around with some questions on warmup's and was directed to this presentation which is pretty good and contains useful info + some sensible advice. Worth checking out if interested in this topic.

http://www.slideshare.net/acoggan1/science-and-art-of-warm-up

Only negative I found in it was the example of the scripted warmup took a long time to complete. A shorter example as used by Sky can be found here: http://wattbike.com/uk/blog/post/team_sky_tt_warm_up_protocol

hypster

It's always interested me how long a warmup continues to be beneficial for. You see the pros warming up for a time trial and then I wonder how long it is sometimes before they actually start?

littledove44

So no point warming up if you are going out for a non competitive ride.

Glad I got that right.

EBEB

I don't see any evidence presented, in the slide show, that there is no benefit to warming up prior to a non-competitive ride.

I would guess the hypothesis that it would be of a benefit are;
1) warm up increases the training benefit of a session
2) warm up reduces the risk of injury due to a training session
3) regular warm up has benefits not measurable following a single session

None of the research presented answers those questions, or even attempts to.